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MISSIONS (Lat. missio, a sending)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 583 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MISSIONS (
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Lat. missio, a sending)
  the
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term used specially for the propagandist operations of the Christian Church among the
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heathen, the executants of this
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work being missionaries . Both "
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mission " and " missionary " have hence come to be used of similar
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works in other spheres . The
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history of Christian missions may, for
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practical purposes, be divided into three chief periods: (1) the
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primitive, (2) the
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medieval and (3) the
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modern .

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